About this Pig Latin translator
Pig Latin is a playful English word game. You take the consonants before a word’s first vowel, move them to the end, and add ay, so pig becomes igpay and string becomes ingstray. Words that start with a vowel just get a suffix, such as appleway. This translator follows those rules, keeps qu together as in eenquay, leaves punctuation, numbers, and spacing alone, and keeps your capital letters where they belong. It can also turn Pig Latin back into English. Because some words can be read two ways, each decoded word gets a confidence badge.
How to translate Pig Latin
- Enter your text. Type or paste English or Pig Latin, or press an example.
- Choose the direction and dialect. Pick English → Pig Latin or Pig Latin → English, then the Dialect your group uses. When decoding, use the dialect the text was written in.
- Set the details. Choose how the Letter Y counts, and untick Keep capital letters if you want everything in lower case.
- Press Translate. Copy the translation, and check the Word by word table to see how each word was changed.
Frequently asked questions
What are the rules of Pig Latin?
Move every consonant before the first vowel to the end of the word and add ay: pig becomes igpay, and chair becomes airchay. A word that starts with a vowel keeps its letters and gets a suffix, usually way.
How is the letter Y handled?
In Smart mode, Y at the start of a word is a consonant (yellow becomes ellowyay) and Y later in a word is a vowel (rhythm becomes ythmrhay). You can also make Y always a consonant or always a vowel.
Why is qu kept together?
The u in qu does not sound like a vowel, so the pair moves as one unit: queen becomes eenquay rather than ueenqay. The same applies inside clusters, as in squeal.
Why are some decoded words marked Likely?
Pig Latin loses information. In the classic dialect, andway could be and or wand. The translator picks the more likely reading and shows other possibilities when you hover over the badge.
What happens to capitals and punctuation?
Punctuation, numbers, and spaces stay where they were. With Keep capital letters on, a capitalised word stays capitalised on its new first letter, and a word in all caps stays in all caps.